Software Engineering Manager
Signpost is making it easy for small businesses to manage their online presence, convert interested consumers and remarket existing customers. Our cloud-based marketing platform automates the myriad of tasks required to effectively market a small business online, freeing owners to focus on what they do best.
Our engineering team is growing rapidly and we’re looking for our next generation of technical leaders. Our culture is collaborative and emphasizes continuous improvement of ourselves, our systems, and our organization. If you’re ready to join an outstanding and passionate team of engineers at a fast-moving startup where you can learn, grow, and have real technical ownership, you’ve come to the right place.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee day to day operations of 1-2 agile engineering teams
- Partner with Product Managers to deliver features that excite our customers
- Foster a positive, growth oriented atmosphere for all engineers
- Work with VP of Engineering to build a high performance engineering culture
- Hold engineers and team(s) accountable to goals
- Ensure frequent deployments and high cycle times
- Communicate, coach toward and hold your team(s) responsible to high standards
- Facilitate team and individual decision making
- Act as hiring manager for engineering positions
- Continuously evolve an agile process to fit team and project needs
- Challenge team to identify bottlenecks & ways of speeding up delivery
- Guide effectiveness of team meetings
- Ensure engineers are focused on the sprint & stories at hand
- Support teams through conflict to healthy resolutions
Experience /Education:
- Experience managing others OR as a proven, technical leader
- At least 5 years building high quality web or mobile applications with modern tools
- Ability competently to discuss high level solutions in NodeJs
- Strong understanding of AWS and SRE/DevOps concepts
- Experience building SaaS products
Work Skills/Personal Characteristics:
- Ability to lead and inspire others
- Empathetic, collaborative and hard working
- Strong desire to learn new things
- Humble and open to constructive feedback
- Strong communication skills
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Strong initiative and sense of ownership
Salary Range: $140,000 - $170,000 a year